Current North America Award Winners

SETAC North America awards and fellowships are divided into three categories: Professional awards, research fellowships and student awards.

Each award category is evaluated by separate guidelines but maintains the intent of the Society’s award process. Unless an award specifies otherwise, candidates may be self-nominated or nominated by an individual or group and SETAC members or nonmembers (guests) from the North America, Asia-Pacific or Latin America geographic units.

2025 Best Student Presentation Award Winners

Undergraduate

• Sasha Steinberg​, University of California, Santa Cruz: Lead Isotopic Compositions Suggest Ingested Fragments as Source of Toxicity in Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Masters

• Mia Lahiji, University of Lethbridge: Investigating Microcystin Contamination in Alberta’s Irrigation District: Impacts on Soil and Crop Health

Ph.D.

• Samantha Phelps, Duke University: Later-Life Stress Responses Are Compromised by Developmental Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Fish Evolved to Resist PAH Toxicity

​​​​​​​2025 SETAC North America Professional Excellence in Service Award

• Eric Van Genderen, International Zinc Association